Joss Whedon Called Edgar Wright's Ant-Man The Best Script Marvel Ever Had

Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has opened up about Edgar Wright's departure from Ant-Man.

"Only that I don't get it," Whedon told BuzzFeed when asked for his thoughts. "I thought the script was not only the best script that Marvel had ever had, but the most Marvel script I’d read. I had no interest in Ant-Man. [Then] I read the script, and was like, Of course! This is so good! It reminded me of the books when I read them. Irreverent and funny and could make what was small large, and vice versa."

"I don’t know where things went wrong. But I was very sad," he said. "Because I thought, This is a no-brainer. This is Marvel getting it exactly right. Whatever dissonance that came, whatever it was, I don’t understand why it was bigger than a marriage that seemed so right. But I’m not going to say it was definitely all Marvel, or Edgar’s gone mad! I felt like they would complement each other by the ways that they were different. And, uh, somethin’ happened."

This was Whedon's reaction just six weeks after Wright left, so it's not taking into account how the script or film has developed since then. One report cited the film's "core morality" and disputes over the inclusion of "franchise characters" as the reason for the split.

Steve Watts is a freelance writer, and also Ant-Man's arch-nemesis, Magnifying Glass Man. You can read more of his keen insights by following him on Twitter and IGN.